It wasn't until Killer Mike's speech in Atlanta that the gravitas of what George Floyd was saying while he was on the ground really hit me.
>When a man yells for his mother, in duress and pain, and she is dead, he is essentially yelling "please God, don't let it happen to me." [0]
I don't know if I'm just so tired and desensitized at this point that the situation didn't register the first time I saw the picture and transcript (I won't watch the video). And I think that's awful.
> And crying for his mother.
I think this is a very common story among soldiers who've seen a comrade get killed. People cry out for comfort in their last minutes.
I think the part you missed is this was not for a bad check. People are upset because he was profiled and falsely accused of writing a bad check. Then ultimately killed using justification of false accusations.
Re:Google postpones Android 11 beta
by xboxnolifes on Saturday May 30, 2020 @01:35PM
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Even being falsely accused is almost irrelevant here. Someone was killed in a police encounter over a bad check, falsely accused or not. It's not like a false accusations of murder or some aggregated assault. It's a case of a bad check.
And how he is dead. People are rallying, people are protesting. He is still dead. For a bad check.